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Sun, 02 Aug 2015 19:40:24 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/Comment on You Can Call Me AL by maddie285http://betsylerner.com/2015/07/29/you-can-call-me-al/#comment-68942
Sun, 02 Aug 2015 19:40:24 +0000http://betsylerner.com/?p=7030#comment-68942You got it! And I’m also now an official reader of your blog!
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Sun, 02 Aug 2015 11:30:03 +0000http://betsylerner.com/?p=7030#comment-68939You like it? Hot damn! You can send me a copy of the book. :)
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Sun, 02 Aug 2015 02:29:32 +0000http://betsylerner.com/?p=7036#comment-68938I badly want to try the stand-up paddleboard, but am afraid I will tip the damn thing over. It seems so unstable!
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Sun, 02 Aug 2015 00:55:26 +0000http://betsylerner.com/?p=7030#comment-68936Oh my goodness! This is GREAT! I do love the cadence of that title…and I think the “Sunday Supper” would work perfectly with these characters. THANK YOU so much! I’ve already tried it out on a few people, and they loved it. (Where do I send your check? LOL)
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Sat, 01 Aug 2015 13:45:18 +0000http://betsylerner.com/?p=7036#comment-68933Go Averil!
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Sat, 01 Aug 2015 13:42:59 +0000http://betsylerner.com/?p=7036#comment-68932Good advice, up in the air about the no weed part; I like when my mind takes off, but sometimes it’s hard to rein it back in…. My latest distraction is a Stand Up Paddleboard, something I thought foolish but then I tried it and, well, the summer just isn’t long enough. Writing yes, doing a little, need to do more.
Wherever the month takes you, enjoy!
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Sat, 01 Aug 2015 13:35:31 +0000http://betsylerner.com/?p=7036#comment-68931A couple of weeks ago I got an email from my agent for the first time in many months. Just checking in, he said. It’s been AGES! What are you up to?

Busted. I had to admit that I’d set aside the book we talked about last year. I just couldn’t make it work, so I put it on ice and started writing something new. Surprise, Mr. Hotshot Agent! Your writer’s gone rogue! Luckily, the book I pitched him doesn’t totally suck (really lucky, since it’s well past the point of no return), so we agreed I’d have something for him to read by mid-September. Which isn’t enough time. But there is never enough time, and due dates always feel sort of arbitrary even when they aren’t. You just have to pick one and aim for it and see how close you can get.

Early mornings, bottomless coffee, dishes be damned. Let’s do this thing, Betsy.

]]>Comment on You Can Call Me AL by independentclausehttp://betsylerner.com/2015/07/29/you-can-call-me-al/#comment-68930
Sat, 01 Aug 2015 12:51:12 +0000http://betsylerner.com/?p=7030#comment-68930I hear you on the vacuum aspect of domesticity. But I like the idea of a title that pits home life against circumstances where the basic contract of family happiness is broken. If it took place in the South, I might think “Survivor’s Guide to Sunday Supper”.
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Sat, 01 Aug 2015 12:47:21 +0000http://betsylerner.com/?p=7030#comment-68929Like Tetman says above, think about the acoustics. How is it going to sound when Terry Gross says, “I’m here today with Your Name, author of the memoir Eczematic”? Hard to pronounce, hard to spell.
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Sat, 01 Aug 2015 12:43:05 +0000http://betsylerner.com/?p=7036#comment-68928That has been my July. Good practice for sweating my (metaphorical) balls off at my desk (dining room table) for August. Good luck to you all.
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